Aljezur Info - Directory and guide to this town in west Algarve, including map, accommodation, restaurants and information on the local beaches and Costa Vicentina Natural Park.
Aljezur.net - Information on this town close to the west coast and the surrounding area, including a directory of local services.
Mafaldo & Vilhena - Building firm based in Aljezur mainly engaged in the construction/recovery of villas and the construction of swimming pools. Photographs of projects.
During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Aljezur "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
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Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Aljezur Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw Aljezur
"I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Aljezur And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Aljezur
"It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Aljezur blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw Aljezur
"The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Aljezur If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings Aljezur
"The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Aljezur I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Aljezur
Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins Aljezur "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein Aljezur
The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Aljezur It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman Aljezur
I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Aljezur Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner Aljezur
"We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Aljezur I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill Aljezur
Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Aljezur Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Aljezur
